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Snowmobiles are out. We get maybe 3 weeks of use per winter if we're lucky. Or tow 2 hours north. My neighbors have a side-by-side, and they'll bring it home covered in mud. It looks fun.
I have never owned a horse.
My wife has never owned a horse.
On weekends, she won't get up in the morning to feed the dogs.
My plan here is to show her the property purchase is only part of the expense. We'll need $$$ for equipment, $$$ for a shelter if there isn't already one, $$$ to fence the place.
She started riding again about a year and a half ago, she takes a one hour lesson once a week. About 3 or 4 times a year we'll go somewhere for a trail ride. We haven't gone to the same place twice, although the last place we went, Woodside Ranch near Mauston WI, I'd like to go again. There's also one I want to check out just north of Winona, MN. They let you ride double with a small kid, and we'd take the granddaughter along.
The barn she rides at has carts like that. Imagine one filled with horse poop on a 80 degree day.
Seahawk, how can you say horses don't have personalities? There's about 30 of them at the barn my wife rides at, and every one is different. I don't go with her for every lesson, but I'll go every couple of months or so, and I've volunteered there for their therapy program fundraiser.
Lately she's been riding a Gypsy Vanner. A big wide one. She had him loping circles in the arena last night, and you could feel every hoof beat. She rides western. When she was a kid she rode english.
I was mugged last night.
There's a gelding there, about 10, but he has navicular. They can only use him to give little kids pony rides, and he's a little too lively for that, so he sits in the pasture most of the time. But he's the sweetest guy you'd ever know, and he will follow you around like a dog. I went out to visit him last night and feed him a couple treats. The next thing I know, I'm surrounded by four horses and they're all grabbing for the treats. One of them lipped my watch and tried to pull it off my wrist. He didn't get it. They're good boys though, nothing like the mares. Just goof balls.
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